IF GEJ CANT HANDLE THEM, THEN CAN U? IF YOU CANT AND HAS NOT DONE SO, WHAT ARE U WAITING FOR SIR BUHARI?




Buhari: Jonathan can’t handle Boko Haram
•Sect doesn’t deserve amnesty, says Ijaw group
From KOFA KINGS, Ughelli
Monday, July 25, 2011



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From the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Western Zone came a warning at the weekend on President Goodluck Jonathan not to grant amnesty to the Boko Haram fundamentalists. The sect had made Borno and other states in the North ungovernable recently. With the warning came a damning verdict from Gen Muhammadu Buhari saying the government can’t handle the sect.

And bothered by the attacks in Northern parts of the country by suspected Boko Haram members, churches now frisk their congregation at the gates before being allowed entry. A number of churches had been bombed lately by people suspected to be Boko Haram, even as a director in the Amnesty Office in the Presidency called for a programme to cater for youths.

But the IYC argued that there was no comparison between the Niger Delta militants and the Boko Haram sect. It decried the comparison of the Islamic fundamentalists and Niger Delta combatants.

In a communique issued at the weekend after the zonal meeting in Arogbo, Ondo State, the IYC warned: “ If the Federal Government should bow to calls for amnesty for Boko Haram, the fund accruing from the Niger Delta oil should never be contemplated to facilitate such amnesty programme.
“While the council condemns the activities of Boko Haram in strong terms and maintained that there was no basis for comparison, as some have done, of the Moslem group with Niger Delta combatants fighting for the criminal neglect of the region by the Federal Government that feeds fat from its resources,” the statement further added.

The Ijaw group, however, hailed President Jonathan on the re-appointment of Kingsley Kuku as Special Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs, adding that Kuku had applied his “wealth of experience in fast-tracking the amnesty programme.”

The IYC, among other things, tasked President Jonathan to establish standard tertiary institutions in Ijawland “to reconcile the backward region to the rest of the country,” adding: “To that effect, Congress calls on the Delta State Government to properly fund the Delta State Institute of Marine Technology, Burutu to enable it succeed in its purpose.”

Meanwhile, the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Buhari has bemoaned the insecurity in the nation, saying the President cannot handle the Boko Haram sect.
The former military Head of State, who spoke through his spokesman, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, noted that the major issue is that we live in denial in this country and we don’t want to get to the root cause of all problems, saying we just see them on the surface.

“The issue of Boko Haram has become a major security challenge and like many other groups that are taking up arms against the state, they are products of injustices.
“When you look at the Boko Haram, Boko Haram is an anarchist group that is a response to the neglect of the poor, to the kind of inequality in the society that has confined majority to poverty, while a few take all the goods of the society.

“And these people are responding to the crisis in their own way and in the process, have taken up arms.
“I have not seen any issue where the President has shown capacity that he can address Nigeria today. He has not shown that he can address any serious issue confronting the country,” Buhari said.
On the way forward in putting to rest, the insecurity in the nation, Buhari said it is so clear that the signs are not very good at all, adding that they are dangerous signals.
“Only this morning, we read in the papers that some groups are circulating leaflets in our 10 states in the North, that they are also Christian militants and that they are ready to engage Boko Haram.
“If care is not taken, I think those are dangerous signals and rather than engaging or encouraging this kind of thing, because when you look at the country where this kind of thing is happening, it is a bad signal and we have just been rated as the 14th most failed country in the world.

“If you allow this kind of thing to go on unchecked, uncontrolled and without a serious approach, which requires sophisticated thinking, we will be heading for trouble in this country,” Buhari said.
While saying that Nigeria needs serious leadership at this moment and not politics, Buhari also said that “with what we have seen in the last one year, we want to play politics with security at every critical juncture,” saying “that is why we have not been able to address the question of security challenge.”
On its part, a director in the Amnesty office in the Presidency, Dr. Ferdinand Ikwang, said agitation for resource control and wanton destruction of lives and property are two different things.
He called on the government to design a programme that would cater for the needs of all the youths in the nation’s six geo-political zones.
Ikwang, who spoke against the background of the call for amnesty for Boko Haram lamented over the violence carried out by the group.

Speaking in Lagos at the weekend at the sendforth of 50 Niger Delta youths to Sri Lanka for vocational training, Ikwang declared: “Every zone should be dealt with by its merit. We should also look at what will be of strategic national, economic, and security interests of the country and then what are we looking out for in the future,” said Ikwang.

i really hope he can !!!